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There is no question that today’s political rhetoric can get heated on both side of the aisle. Whether you are a Democrat or a Republican, people want the truth from their politicians and pundits. Since 2007, the St. Petersburg Times’ Pulitzer Prize-winning PolitiFact.com has provided insight into the American politics. It helps users find the truth in politics by examining statements by members of Congress, the president, cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, people who testify before Congress and other Washington D.C. gadflies. Then, it rates the accuracy on the Truth-O-Meter – True, Mostly True, Half True, Barely True, False and the lowest rating, Pants on Fire.

Using Flash Builder, the PolitiFact team created the app within three weeks. Flash Builder and the Flex framework made it possible to develop in just one code base and quickly leverage content from the existing PolitiFact website. By developing the application with one code base with Adobe technologies, the development team i saved time and money by not having to build and test a separate native application for each individual device. The app has really taken off and was the number one news app in iTunes when it launched!

To learn more about how PolitiFact used Adobe technologies to bring the politics to mobile, read more here.

The PolitiFact app, built with the new Adobe Flash Builder and Flex updates, has really taken off. We learned yesterday that it was listed as the number one news app (number 78 overall currently) in the iTunes Store!

Created by the Pulitzer Prize-winning St. Petersburg Times, PolitiFact features the Truth-O-Meter, rating the accuracy of statements made by lobbyists, Congress, the President and other political gadflies. From a development standpoint, the app only took three weeks to build because the new Adobe Flash Builder and Adobe Flex updates helped the developers use the same content, data and logic from the existing website.